Banner Health is a non-profit health system in the United States, based in Phoenix, Arizona. It operates 23 hospitals as well as specialized facilities. The health system is the 2 nd largest employer in Arizona, only second to Walmart, employing more than 35,000.
The organization provides emergency care, hospital care, hospice, long-term/home care, outpatient surgery centers, labs, rehab services, pharmacies, and more recently has begun operating primary care physician clinics, which include Banner Arizona Medical Clinic and Banner Medical Group. In 2010, it reported assets of $6.4 billion and revenues of $4.9 billion.
Banner Health was created in 1999 through a merger between Lutheran Health Systems, based in North Dakota, and Samaritan Health System, based in Phoenix.
Banner also operates a Medicare Advantage insurance plan in the valley referred to as Banner MediSun. Banner is in the process of undergoing organizational change and is in the innovation stage.
Banner Health is partnering with Houston's M.D. Anderson to build a $90 million cancer center 30 miles southeast of Phoenix.
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